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Research-A-Thon Spring 2025

A spring Research-A-Thon across MS, PhD, Quantum, and undergraduate tracks, with poster sessions, an industry talk, and an awards ceremony.

UDICA · T-Mobile · IBM · IEEE · UMKC Bloch School · QSAIC

Awards by track

AI / Data Science, MS

1st Place

Towards Smarter Cyber Defense: Anomaly Detection with Autoencoders and LLM-Driven Threat Intelligence

Riley Bruce, Prathyu Adari, Katy Bohanan, Ransom Ward

2nd Place

WanderTales: AI-Powered Travel Stories & Recommendations

Viswanth Tammana, Dharani Thakkallapally, Pavan Sundar Reddy Guthikonda, Banu Teja Jampani

3rd Place

LLMout: NFL Multimodal Offensive Strategy Report Generator

Jason Jordan, Krutarth Lad, Jainil Patel, Harshitha Behera

Honorable Mention

Fall Detection for Elderly People Living Alone Based on YOLOv5 and ARKit

Jayadithya Nalajala, Sai Jahnavi Devabhakthuni, Hui Jin, Saniya Pandita

Honorable Mention

AI-Powered Multimodal Marketing Content Generator with Customizable Product Visualization

Hrishikesh Komaragiri, Vinay Joshva, Sunil Reddy Janapala, Rohith Sai Charan Eanugula

Honorable Mention

AI-Powered Job Search Assistant

Amrutha Perumalla, Priyanka Adusumilli, Maheshwar Rao Bandi

AI / Data Science, PhD

1st Place

SAM-KG: Knowledge Graph-Enhanced Tumor Segmentation with Zero-Shot Foundation Models

Saeed Alqarni

3rd Place

KARMA: A Knowledge Graph Framework for Explainable and Personalized AI in Healthcare

Udiptaman Das

Honorable Mention

G2SEM: Gradient-Guided Semantic Relationship Analysis for CLIP Interpretability

Muhammad Imran

Honorable Mention

PostCorrect: Real-Time Posture Correction and Feedback Using Vision Transformers and LLMs

Abhinav Kochar, Ahmed Alanazi

Honorable Mention

Batching Model Slices for Resource-Efficient Execution of Transformer Models in Edge AI

Waleed Mubark

Quantum AI

1st Place

Line Graph Quantum Embeddings for Learning on Edge-Centric Graphs

Luke Miller

2nd Place

A Quantum-Enhanced Transformer System for Real-Time Intraday Stock Forecasting

Abhinav Kochar, Sai Karthik Patri

3rd Place

Quantum-Enhanced Molecular Representation Learning Using Hybrid Quantum-Classical Autoencoders

Jayadithya Nalajala

Undergraduate

3rd Place

Frame Pruner: An SVM-Based Approach to Improving Detection Model Resource Consumption

Brady Maes

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